SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - December 5, 2001 - BakBone Software (TSE: BKB), a global provider of storage management software, announced today its flagship backup and recovery software NetVault has been validated by Red Hat as part of the Red Hat Certified ISV Partner Program. NetVault is now being distributed on the Linux Application CD that ships with Red Hat Linux 7.2 Professional, to Red Hat customers worldwide.

"Red Hat is committed to working with application vendors like BakBone to assure the highest levels of customer satisfaction and usability," said Mark DeVisser, VP of Marketing, Red Hat. "BakBone's NetVault software offers a level of simplicity and ease of use that makes it an excellent choice for Red Hat Linux users."

This validation solidifies BakBone's long-standing commitment to the Linux community. NetVault's core architecture has provided superior device and central management of the backup domain for Linux since 1999. By joining the Red Hat Certified ISV Partner Program, BakBone is expanding its presence in the Linux marketplace gaining access to Red Hat's global marketing and sales programs, technology road maps and developer support solutions.

"Red Hat is the market leader in Linux, the fastest growing platform within today's enterprise environments," said Randy Batterson, Vice President of Strategic Alliances, BakBone Software. "We are delighted to reach out to their growing customer base to offer NetVault, our high-speed, high-performance backup and restore solution that has already been proven in Linux installations around the world."

NetVault is built upon an advanced modular architecture that provides IT managers the flexibility for growth and continued enhancement as companies' information storage needs expand and change. With an intuitive and easy-to-use GUI delivering enterprise-wide control in both distributed and centralized environments, NetVault is able to operate in multi-vendor networks and supports a broad range of platforms, applications and high performance tape devices. Supporting both 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels, NetVault offers a simple, yet robust backup and recovery solution for most Red Hat Linux operating system releases to-date, including Professional and Enterprise Editions. NetVault also offers a complete line of Application Plugin Modules (APMs ) to support hot backup of Red Hat Linux-based databases, such as DB2, Lotus Notes Domino R5, Oracle 8i and SQL.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software (TSE: BKB) is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes high-performance software solutions to the network storage and open systems markets. BakBone's near-line archival and backup/restore software suites provide scalable data protection from the workgroup to the enterprise. Founded in 2000, BakBone Software's products are used by companies worldwide, and are distributed through a network of OEMs and solution providers.

BakBone's corporate headquarters is located at 10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard, San Diego, California 92121. Its stock is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and is included on the TSE 300 Composite, S&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap and TSE 200 indices. For more information on BakBone products, call (866) 484-2663, e-mail sales@bakbone.com, or access BakBone's web site at www.bakbone.com.

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